Wise Acre

Alert: New Beer Lands in Chicago

So when we heard that one of Chicago's own modest brew palaces was preparing to release into the wild (i.e.,
liquor stores) a tiny, virgin batch of handcrafted beer goodness, we knew you'd want to be there to pounce
on it with cat-like quickness.

Introducing Baumé, the first special-edition beer from Half Acre's brand-new North Center
Brewery, dropping this week and redefining the "micro" in "microbrew."

A little backstory: up until three weeks ago, Half Acre was doing its brewing out of Black River Falls,
Wisconsin. But with the debut of Baumé, a hoppy rye stout with notes of chocolate and coffee, it
ushers in an era of freshness and flavor that's all Illinois.

But here's the catch: as it's just sort of a christening batch, there were only 10 kegs and 600 22oz bombers
produced. The kegs will be arriving at a few Chicago bars later this week, and the bottles will land on a
few liquor store shelves in the coming days. After that, we're told they'll never produce Baumé
again.